Post installation

when i use the search functionality, this is the result.

warning: Compilation failed: characters with values > 255 are not yet supported in

classes at offset 143 in search.module on line 236.

I am trying to run a helpdesk system called oneorzero helpdesk with drupal. The helpdesk application is installed in a subdirectory called helpdesk. When ever I try to launch the application I receive the following error;

Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in /home/public_html/helpdesk/common/login.php on line 45

I have tried most of the posts for modifying the .htaccess file, but no luck.

Does anyone having any suggestions on what would need to be done to use this application. I am currently using Drupal 4.5

Hello. I'm getting some complaints from my users about the way the pages in Drupal 4.5.0 behave when entering new content. I'm speaking here of the "create content", "add new blog entry", "submit forum topic", and "add new comment". The troubling behavior comes up in two different scenarios:

1) start new content using one of the pages mentioned above; enter a title, enter some text in the body; leave the page, either by going Back in the browser or going to some other page; use the Back or Forward button (as the case may be) to come back to the page where you were entering comment; when the page finishes rendering, the partially entered content is gone.

2) start new content using one of the pages mentioned above; enter a title, enter some text in the body; click "preview"; preview page comes up; go to some other page, including previewing an image that you might have attached to your post; come back and the page has expired; you better click "Retry" or you're going to lose what you had typed in.

Scenario 2 happened to one of my users yesterday after he spent over an hour working on a post. Needless to say he was pissed when his content was gone forever because he accidentally failed to click "Retry" when he came back to the preview page after looking at one of the images attached to his post.

The first thing that comes to mind is can we change Drupal so that neither of these scenarios occurs? For example, I can go into Yahoo Mail, start an email, leave the page, come back to the page, and the email I was working on will still be there. Neither scenario 1) nor 2) happens in Yahoo Mail. What is Yahoo Mail doing that Drupal is not doing?

Is there a way to make a stories comments "disabled" by default?

[You can select: disabled, read, read/write]

Currently, there is a way where you can setup so that stories are "Promoted to the front page" by default....

Content > Configure > Default Workflow...

I'm trying to set things up for comments by default like this page does for Default Workflow

The ultimate goal is to get rid of the: » login to post comments statement when a user is not logged in to the site.

Thanks,
Trae

I'm running Drupal 4.5. I'd really like to have visual seperation between the different document types. I'd like the display style for a forum to be different from a story. Has anyone tried this? Is it possible with the current version?

I think I may have accidentally deleted the admin account on my new drupal-based site. All of the content I created is now n/a and I can't log in as the admin. How can I get my account back and is there any way to revive the content?

:(

-Steve